Film

The one day workshop in Brighton with well known Streetphotography blogger Eric Kim was a pleasure to visit. The participans varied from total beginner to experienced analog and digital shooter, from the age between 25 to 60 years, the gear from Bridge camera to Leica Rangefinder. Eric is very enthusiastic and it was a pleasure […]

Wedding and Portrait photographer Edward Olive’s photostream on flickr is really worth a visit. He often uses light in this great, classic Hollywood manner. His photos speak a unique language of light. Together with other photographers, he started a project I want to point you to (text from the Flickr Photopage of the shown photo […]

Just wanted to share a few examples (a few already posted here) with you. Shots I took using film, selfdeveloped if bw. Scanned with either the EPSON V750 or a Nikon Coolscan 9000ED. Kodak TRIX 400 Example 1 Example 2 (shot very close to the location of the shot above) High quality bw film with […]

As flickr user Scottoo remarked, my try of a winter shot of the Flatiron building was inspired by Steichen. I had the privilege to see an original print of this picture at a Steichen exhibit at South Sea Port / NYC in Oct. 2010 and was moved by the strength and simplicity of this picture. […]

A little while ago I blogged about doing travel- and streetphotography with a foldable medium format camera. I tried another approach while I am in New York on a business trip with a Hasselblad (waistlevel finder) medium format SLR. This photo is an example what can be done with a ‘slow’ camera (manual focus, manual […]

A first time for me – shooting a medium format Hasselblad with waistlevel finder. And big luck to be able shot shoot it in Manhattan while here on a business trip. The camera is a 503cw, rented from Adorama Rental Company ARC in midtwon. I use it with A12 backs (3) and a 80 mm […]

I am just traveling from Frankfurt to New York in a Lufthansa Airbus. Lufthansa is offering WiFi for free, so I can. Surf the Net, write a few Mails and Write this blogpost. A first time for me, I was analog bevor, just reading books and magazines on flighttime. I enjoy the freedom to roam, […]

This is an example of a easy done, but strange Selfie- The Lomo Spinner 360 takes a (more than) 360 degrees pano shot, so I was on the pic two times. The camera really is of low quality, mine failed after only 15 films (and was replaced without problems by the Lomo shop Vienna). The […]

This is an example of the first ten 120-format films I shot, self-developed and scanned. There is quite a lot to learn, so I am far from good at this. An Ilford Delta 3200 ISO film was used for this shot of a street in Dresden in the evening, the Voigtländer Bessa III was my […]

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Hello, I'm Carsten.

Consultant by day, renegade photographer by night. Blessed to being doing what I love, every day. Self-professed teaholic. Mover. Shaker. Wine drinker. Animal lover. VW driver. But, in the end, I'm just a man from Germany with a camera that loves to travel.

Why do I still shoot film? Good question, here are the answers:

- medium and large format (beat that digital, not a chance)
- curve response / tones in BW
- for each film a use, for each film a grain, a range of tones etc.
- you pay attention to how you shoot, I bet a digital only shooter can not claim the majority of his photos are publishable
- exposure control, those cameras do what you want, they don't get in the way
- cameras were made of titanium, steel and aluminium, not plastic
- in BW, it just looks better !
- the pleasure of having to wait (which also makes you pay attention to the way you use your film)

"The best camera is the one that's in your hands loaded with a fresh roll"